REGISTERED NURSE - Pavilion 8

The Registered RN is a professional caregiver who, as a member of a multidisciplinary health care team, assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated time frame and who supervises and provides care to these patients utilizing the nursing process including the therapeutic use of self.

Additional Responsibilities:

-Follows established policies and procedures.
-Communicates openly with internal customers and supervisors.
-Provides excellent customer service interfacing well with all levels of staff, management, and physicians.
-Applies Cooper's core values.
-Assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of patients for a designated timeframe.
-Evaluates patients, implement, and document nursing care.
-Assists physicians during examinations and procedures.
-Performs various patient tests and administers medications utilizing the nursing process.
-Promotes patients' independence by establishing patient care goals and teaching patients and families to understand conditions, medications, and self-care skills.